Wild Dog Dreaming: Love and Extinction - Rilegato

Rose, Deborah Bird

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ISBN 10: 081393091X ISBN 13: 9780813930916

Casa editrice: Univ of Virginia Pr, 2011

Riassunto

We are living in the midst of the Earth’s sixth great extinction event, the first one caused by a single species: our own. In Wild Dog Dreaming, Deborah Bird Rose explores what constitutes an ethical relationship with nonhuman others in this era of loss. She asks, Who are we, as a species? How do we fit into the Earth’s systems? Amidst so much change, how do we find our way into new stories to guide us? Rose explores these questions in the form of a dialogue between science and the humanities. Drawing on her conversations with Aboriginal people, for whom questions of extinction are up-close and very personal, Rose develops a mode of exposition that is dialogical, philosophical, and open-ended.

An inspiration for Rose—and a touchstone throughout her book—is the endangered dingo of Australia. The dingo is not the first animal to face extinction, but its story is particularly disturbing because the threat to its future is being actively engineered by humans. The brazenness with which the dingo is being wiped out sheds valuable, and chilling, light on the likely fate of countless other animal and plant species.

"People save what they love," observed Michael Soulé, the great conservation biologist. We must ask whether we, as humans, are capable of loving—and therefore capable of caring for—the animals and plants that are disappearing in a cascade of extinctions. Wild Dog Dreaming engages this question, and the result is a bold account of the entangled ethics of love, contingency, and desire.

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L'autore:

Deborah Bird Rose, Adjunct Professor in Environmental Humanities at the University of New South Wales, is the author of Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation and Dingo Makes Us Human: Life and Land in an Australian Aboriginal Culture.

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Book by Rose Deborah Bird

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Virginia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 081393091X
• ISBN 13: 9780813930916
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 168